QAMISHLI,
Syria — The
Syrian Kurdish forces that spearheaded the battle to crush Daesh’s
self-proclaimed “caliphate” in 2019 warned Wednesday that the world’s lack of
support risked allowing for a Islamist extremist rebirth.
اضافة اعلان
The Daesh proto-state — which once
administered millions of people across swathes of Syria and Iraq, on territory
roughly the size of Britain — was declared defeated on March 23, 2019.
The US-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),
which act as the autonomous Kurdish administration’s army, led the battle that
flushed out the village of Baghouz where Daesh made its last stand.
The SDF’s central command warned in a
statement that the countries that provided assistance to the military operation
at the time should not turn their backs on the region now.
“The absence of a clear, comprehensive
long-term international plan increases human and material losses and allows
ISIS to strengthen its organization,” it said, using another acronym for the
extremist group.
Daesh has not had fixed positions in
Iraq or
Syria since March 2019 but its remnants have continued to launch hit-and-run
guerilla attacks from desert hideouts.
The SDF said a huge attack on a prison in
Hasakeh in January was evidence that Daesh was seeking to expand its
operational capabilities.
The battles sparked by the Ghwayran prison
break left at least 370 people dead.
According to Britain-based monitoring group
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a significant number of
Daesh fighters
sprung free.
The
Kurdish forces also blamed those countries
that are still reluctant to repatriate their citizens held in camps and prisons
for suspected Daesh members and their relatives.
The autonomous administration has repeatedly complained
it did not have the resources to detain the thousands of suspects who poured
out of Daesh territory in the caliphate’s dying weeks, let alone to organize
trials.
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